Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A boy who during the vicious war in Liberia , has seen first his mother and then his father , his two elder brothers and his two elder sisters , savagely assassinated in front of his eyes by the guerrilla troops . |
| 2 | Treated as a wayward child who at the same time was exceedingly precocious , he was considerably indulged as long as he continued to sow confusion in Rommel 's back yard . |
| 3 | The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego . |
| 4 | The door was opened by the gipsy girl who with a decisive movement turned the handle and pulled it wide . |
| 5 | BT went a stage further in its experiment , just completed , involving ten staff from its directory enquiries centre at Inverness who over the past year have been operating from home . |
| 6 | These are the Chukchis , Koryaks and Itelmens of the extreme north-east and the Kamchatka Peninsula , the Yukagirs who in the seventeenth century inhabited a very large territory between Chukotka and the lower Lena , the Ainu of southern Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands , the Nivkhs of the lower Amur and Sakhalin , and the Kets of the Yenisei . |
| 7 | Thus a seller who in the normal way has accepted a cheque which is later dishonoured , is an unpaid seller . |
| 8 | These losers make up the core of the 74% of Hungarians who in a recent opinion poll said they thought the economic situation had worsened . |
| 9 | Office workers who on the first day possible in the early year had rushed out in their lunch hour to cover any patch of grass with bare legs and arms , floral patterns and jackets , as if some strange immediate growth had been brought out by the sun , to die back in the early afternoon , had by now got the habit of staying in the dark bowels of buildings when they could . |
| 10 | There are farmers who with the existing lack of any political support are looking at different avenues to improve their profits or even make a profit . |
| 11 | It was J. J. Berzelius in Sweden who in the second decade of the century put atomism on a much more secure footing . |
| 12 | For the purpose of the Acts a dealer is ‘ a person who in the normal course of his business attends sales by auction for the purpose of purchasing goods with a view to reselling them . ’ |
| 13 | His father was a miner who as a young man had started mining in a different coal pit which is closed now . |
| 14 | It was adopted by those abolitionists who in a growing mood of frustration had also developed the agency system . |
| 15 | It concentrates particularly upon benefit in terms of deferment of long-term or short-term institutionalisation ( Was the project successful in sustaining at home people who without the enhanced care would have been in institutional care earlier ? ) . |
| 16 | Steve McQueen in The Getaway and Bullitt and Paul Newman in The Drowning Pool are the big fashion influences cited at Burro , the people who in the last couple of years have flogged us tank tops as well as the classic ‘ No Alla Violenza ’ Ts in conjunction with Duffer . |
| 17 | It was a fascinating glimpse of a people who in the sixteenth century had never seen a wheel or a sea-going ship , had never faced an armoured knight on horseback or the fire power of crossbows and guns , but whose roads and lines of communication through the incredible terrain of the Andes , whose methods of agriculture by irrigation and whose whole political set-up , so close to what we know as Communism , was in some ways more advanced than that of their conquerors . |
| 18 | Some find great benefit in identifying a small group of staff who for a limited period are assigned to a relief pool , for the sole purpose of filling unexpected gaps in staffing or adding strength to a ward team at times of peak workload . |
| 19 | And so the last page or so is given over to French names : Corbière and Jammes and De Regnier ; Tailhade and Romains ; Vildrac , Spire and Arcos — poets who at the present day have few readers even among the French . |
| 20 | Situated in a conservation area in the historical town of Lewes , Millers derives its name from the millers who in the 19th century sold their produce from the front parlour ( now the dining room ) . |
| 21 | Very kind , but international players are supposed to be habitually influential , and it was Hazard who in the second half , with a few incisive passes , gifts from the heavens on a day like this , left a greater mark . |
| 22 | My main opposition in the final was Phil Brown from Birmingham , already an established international and the man who over the next decade or so was to be a team-mate of mine and to be the British anchorman in some very fine 4 × 400 metres relay performances . |
| 23 | Indeed , their first trip to Scotland since 1981 would not have been possible without the assistance of four British-based companies trading in Eastern Europe who at the eleventh hour put up a total of £10,000 . |
| 24 | Sad to say , I had learnt to be suspicious of good-looking young men who for no particular reason seemed to take a sudden interest in me . |
| 25 | A retired administrator who as a young man had single-handedly turned the tide of mutiny in his district in the North-West Provinces , he believed that since those Homeric days British administration had become dangerously out of touch with the people . |
| 26 | A chief executive of a major UK company who in a public speech stressed how far companies in his industry lagged behind the Japanese found , upon analysis , that the shortfall was almost all due to excessive holdings of assets . |
| 27 | Sure , the anatomy is easy , and there are plenty of women who with a straight face will describe their own post-workout shininess as delicate perspiration and mine as rough sweat . |
| 28 | As already discussed in the chapter ‘ Retiring on your own ’ there are women who in the real sense have never left home , but have spent all their spare time outside work living with , and later looking after , their parents . |
| 29 | It has particular significance for those churches who over the last decade , aided by the enthusiasm which stemmed from the Archbishop of Canterbury 's report ‘ Faith in the City ’ ( December , 1985 ) and the subsequently established Church Urban Fund , have tried to put their buildings , their membership and above all their local networks at the service of the wider community . |
| 30 | Ironically , the autarkic model foisted by Stalin on his charges in the 1940s to maintain their isolation from one another and their dependency upon him had , by the 1960s , become something of a rallying point for regimes who in no other sphere enjoyed any tangible measure of independence . |